Born in Morocco, Ruth Knafo Setton is the author of the novels, The Road to Fez, and the forthcoming Zigzag Girl. The recipient of fellowships and awards from the National Endowment of the Arts, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, PEN, and Writer’s Digest, she has won the Katherine Anne Porter Award for Fiction, the Rick diMarinis Fiction Award, Saturday Evening Post’s Great American Fiction contest, and the Jerry Jazz Musician Fiction Award. Her feature film script, Darktown Blues, based on her novel, received honors from many screenwriting competitions, including Austin Film Festival, Sundance Screenwriters’ Lab, and Page International Screenwriting Awards. Her novel, Zigzag Girl, won Grand Prize in the ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Competition, First Prize in the Daphne Awards, and was a finalist for Killer Nashville’s Claymore Award. She’s presently working on a TV pilot for a series based on Zigzag Girl and a new novel. She has taught creative writing at Lehigh University and Semester at Sea.